Mike Bacarella
Also Known As: Michael Bacarella
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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On the Right Track
Overview: Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking the winning horses' names out of the paper while shining shoes. When word gets around, though, everyone wants a piece of the action.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Losing Isaiah
Overview: Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-17
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Major League
Overview: When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate—but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. Rachel is sure her dream will come true, but she underestimates their will to succeed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-16
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Mo' Money
Overview: Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-24
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The Dollmaker
Overview: During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying Colvis is his long-suffering wife, Gertie, a talented woodcarver set in her traditional ways. When the perils of city life and Colvis' reckless squandering of money send the Nevels into precarious financial straits, Gertie starts a business making hand-carved dolls in order to provide for her family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-13
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Primal Fear
Overview: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-06
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Will: G. Gordon Liddy
Overview: Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-10
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Johnny Dangerously
Overview: An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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The Last Rites of Joe May
Overview: Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. Returning to his old neighborhood in Chicago's 'Patch' district, he finds his car gone, all his worldly possessions pawned by his landlord, and the apartment he's lived in his entire adult life rented out to a single mother and her eight-year-old daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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Night of the Lawyers
Overview: They are armed. They are dangerous. They are lawyers. A hard working emergency room doctor is being harassed by a firm on nasty lawyers. An encounter with a friendly alien gives the doctor the power to vaporize people and to take on this firm of unscrupulous lawyers.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Stir of Echoes
Overview: After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Miracle on 34th Street
Overview: Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-18
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My Best Friend's Wedding
Overview: When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-19
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Who Am I This Time?
Overview: Harry is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage. Helene is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Harry's Stanley when the theater group performs A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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Retreads
Overview: A biker reunion is hassled by IRA men.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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No Mercy
Overview: An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-19
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No God, No Master
Overview: A plot to overthrow the United States government is uncovered in New York City in the summer of 1919 when William Flynn, a field agent for the Bureau of Investigation, is sent to investigate a bomb threat that has targeted some of America's most powerful politicians and leaders of commerce, New York millionaire John D. Rockefeller, Sr. among them. Flynn's investigation takes him on a journey into the underworld of homegrown terrorism and introduces him to a competitive culture of violence and murder. Greed, power, and politics are at the center of the story and Flynn must distinguish the villains from the merely discontented. Along the way, he discovers that terrorism has many faces and that a determination of guilt or innocence often lies in the psychology of fear that constricts individuals at every level of society. Sedona International Film Festival.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-11
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Class
Overview: Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-22
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The Game of Their Lives
Overview: Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 US soccer team who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Although no US team has yet won a World Cup title, this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-22
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In the Company of Darkness
Overview: An undercover policewoman (Helen Hunt) alarms her colleague lover (Jeff Fahey) as she role-plays to lure out a serial killer (Steven Weber) to secure evidence for the case.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-05
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The Lake House
Overview: A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-16
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The Untouchables
Overview: Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
Genres: Crime History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-03
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The Fugitive
Overview: Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-06
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Things Are Tough All Over
Overview: Everybody has problems these days, and Cheech and Chong are no exceptions. They're hired by Slyman and Habib to drive a limousine to Las Vegas with $5 million secretly stashed in the front seat. In order to get there, the pair sells off the car piece by piece, including the seven-figure front seat. Cheech and Chong then have a much bigger problem - Slyman and Habib are after them, swearing to kill them after the appropriate torture.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-04
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The Naked Face
Overview: Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince the cops of his innocence, Dr. Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Pink Nights
Overview: Danny is shy and always astonished how his friend Jeff can just walk up to a total stranger and say "Hi!". Even more astonishing that Danny meets three girls the next week and when his mother goes on vacation, one after the other shows up on his doorstep and they move in with him! However that's rather a problem for Danny, because, in love, he's just with one of them.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-30
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Continental Divide
Overview: A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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Running Scared
Overview: Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-27
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The Relic
Overview: A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-10
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The Package
Overview: Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-25
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Opportunity Knocks
Overview: Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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V.I. Warshawski
Overview: Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-26
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God's Will
Overview: A young girl has been left an orphan but in the custody of her step parents. From the afterlife, her parents look out for her and don't like the treatment she is getting.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-01
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The Weather Man
Overview: A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-20
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While You Were Sleeping
Overview: A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Fred Claus
Overview: Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and threatens to shut Santa down, Fred must help his brother to save Christmas.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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Bright Lights, Big City
Overview: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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I Love Trouble
Overview: Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-29
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